There are very few businesses that as a rule are genuinely evil, but insurance companies are one in that category. The whole idea of the entity that has to pay for your health only benefiting when they do not is morally flawed.
Health care needs to be a right, and the risk or cost spread over everyone, with no one excluded. This also means that any benefit in savings must be good for the whole. Private profit making business can not be part of this for it to really be fair to all.
We could have had really top notch health care for everyone for less than we have spent on this silly war in Iraq, and with the give away's big political donors in the name of 911, we could all have our own Doctor.
Health care just needs to come from general revenue, like the Military, and cover every one. We spend more on weapons than the rest of the world combines, and most of that is greedy contracters gouging us. Just the waste in the Pentagon budget could cover everyone.
I really think it is time to take our government back and have it serve us.
Do our, and it seems the Canadian Government officials understand how important net neutrality is? How would they react if some private companies decided to throttle traffic on their countries roads unless they were paid? It is the very same thing.
To bad I am not a big corporation that can say, I think that blue trucks can only go 40 MPH (64.37376 kph, for the Kanucks) unless they pay me. Even though they are on a public right of way.
Yes this is silly, but so is allowing internet traffic throttling.
This is simply greed run rampant, and total disrespect for the law by those companies that think they can get away with it.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. "
Now , where was that? , I can't quite place it, maybe it was in a fairy tale my mom read me as a child?
Oh well, I know that I remember it from somewhere.
"What is more, the company, looking to safeguard its film, television and music holdings, has been an aggressive champion of copyright protection, often, critics suggest, at the cost of technological innovation.""
I think this can be summed up by:
You can't serve mana and Heaven to.
Sony (the technology part) is doomed by the movie part. To bad , they used to make good stuff.
Passenger Safety? try more FAA inspectors, and more air traffic controllers.
This looks like a machine that is being sold to the government and 10 or 20 times what it should cost with the main purpose of funneling tax money to some political donor.
This whole terrorist thing is way overblown , and the real danger in flying is the cheap airlines getting away with lax maintenance because the money that should be going to FAA inspectors is going to silly stuff like this.
I meant government computers, kinda hard to post to Wikileaks about the latest scandal when everything you do is being watched, and prolly timed recorded and put through some algorithm to determine your party loyalty.
History shows that any "fence" or edifice to "security" is almost always, like the Great Wall designed to keep it's citizens in, rather than invaders out.
The biggest problem is the the US Government should have blocked the Boeing / Mc Donald Douglas merger. Then Boeing would have competition and have to actually work to be in business, not just know they had the US Military corporate welfare check in their pockets.
I think Boeing / MD should be broken up now under anyi trust laws.
While Boeing was scheming how far they could gouge the tax payers with the new Military tanker, they just forgot they have work to do on the 'VaporLiner'.
This is the perfect example of a good company caught up in greed instead of what they started as, building airplanes.
M$XML is fitting, more fitting than OOXML which implies openness which is the exact opposite of what it really is, so add my name to your list. I also call it M$XML.
Space Shuttle Design? , who cares, the thing is junk, and prolly just designed to make the Russians spend billions of rubles to copy it. ( Buran, I think)
It was just a waste of our tax money by some fool in the Reagan administration, to simultaneously empty 'large quantities' of our tax money in to some favorite defense contractors pockets, and help the silly plan to break the economy of the USSR. NASA should just send em to Wright-Pat and the Smithsonian, find the plans for the Saturn-V and get on with business.
Of course the truth was stretched by M$. I like the part where they favor their buddies at Intel and say Vista runs well on low end chips, just to help an investor report.
The larger problem is even if you have the next thing to a super computer, Vista is still Vista. Doing mysterious DRM checks while copying files at a rate that would embarrass a TRS-80 Model 1, and all of the other issues of driver incomparability.
Vista is still prone to viruses and Trojans in no small part because M$ still lets it run as root and not need physical password entry to install or run a program.
Before any of the M$ fanbois out here start modding this down, go download the latest Ubuntu, install it on your "Vista Capable Machine" , try using it for a while, then honestly look and see if it isn't superior for desktop use than Vista.
I think you will be surprised.
Or, for those that think you have to pay for software in order for it to work, go over to an Apple store and try OS X.
After doing either of those 2 things, then see if you can come up with some reason, other than monopolistic domination and pre-installation as a reason that anyone would want Vista.
I am glad to say that Vista really is the new Edsel.
One thing I would like to see is how "78M" was arived at. Was this the price the knock off equipment was to be sold for, or was it what Cisco would have sold identicle equipment for at list price.
The reason I am asking this is to find out what Cisco equipment is really worth.
I am assuming that this knock off equipment is identicle to Cisco, at a small fraction of the price, (aka what the equipment is really worth, minus the obscene markup Cisco puts on.)
maybe $"78M" that Cisco charges is really only worth a couple thousand bux.
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Except when using Vista.
Why not make one of the multiple cores a GPU, then the speed at which it communicates with the CPU will be at clock speed.
Problem solved.
Of course Nvidia will need to come up with a CPU.
Cheers
There are very few businesses that as a rule are genuinely evil, but insurance companies are one in that category. The whole idea of the entity that has to pay for your health only benefiting when they do not is morally flawed.
Health care needs to be a right, and the risk or cost spread over everyone, with no one excluded. This also means that any benefit in savings must be good for the whole. Private profit making business can not be part of this for it to really be fair to all.
We could have had really top notch health care for everyone for less than we have spent on this silly war in Iraq, and with the give away's big political donors in the name of 911, we could all have our own Doctor.
Health care just needs to come from general revenue, like the Military, and cover every one. We spend more on weapons than the rest of the world combines, and most of that is greedy contracters gouging us. Just the waste in the Pentagon budget could cover everyone.
I really think it is time to take our government back and have it serve us.
So There
Simple, cause it sux.
Do our, and it seems the Canadian Government officials understand how important net neutrality is? How would they react if some private companies decided to throttle traffic on their countries roads unless they were paid? It is the very same thing.
To bad I am not a big corporation that can say, I think that blue trucks can only go 40 MPH (64.37376 kph, for the Kanucks) unless they pay me. Even though they are on a public right of way.
Yes this is silly, but so is allowing internet traffic throttling.
This is simply greed run rampant, and total disrespect for the law by those companies that think they can get away with it.
So There.
Wow, I wish I had mod points, this is great
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. "
Now , where was that? , I can't quite place it, maybe it was in a fairy tale my mom read me as a child?
Oh well, I know that I remember it from somewhere.
Cheers
"What is more, the company, looking to safeguard its film, television and music holdings, has been an aggressive champion of copyright protection, often, critics suggest, at the cost of technological innovation.""
I think this can be summed up by:
You can't serve mana and Heaven to.
Sony (the technology part) is doomed by the movie part. To bad , they used to make good stuff.
If you buy music, you can make all the copies you want for your own use, and store them any where you want. Duh!
I will not be supprised when I see an article like, "EMI claims breathing air without paying them is illegal".
the greed of the movie and music industry, and their twisting and lying about copyright laws is just over the top.
Cheers
Interesting how lawyers can put words together that are utterly meaningless.
Microsoft + Goodwill = ?
Those words can not be used in the same sentence in English.
Cheers
Passenger Safety? try more FAA inspectors, and more air traffic controllers.
This looks like a machine that is being sold to the government and 10 or 20 times what it should cost with the main purpose of funneling tax money to some political donor.
This whole terrorist thing is way overblown , and the real danger in flying is the cheap airlines getting away with lax maintenance because the money that should be going to FAA inspectors is going to silly stuff like this.
Cheers
I meant government computers, kinda hard to post to Wikileaks about the latest scandal when everything you do is being watched, and prolly timed recorded and put through some algorithm to determine your party loyalty.
Cheers
History shows that any "fence" or edifice to "security" is almost always, like the Great Wall designed to keep it's citizens in, rather than invaders out.
How is this any different?
Cheers
It is a sad day for the world and ISO, the formerly respected standards body. This is just Rambus II.
Rambus got their patent ridden junk in a standard and then sued everyone. M$ has seen this and now expects to do the same.
It is sad to see this level of corruption happen, knowing what is next.
Sad day for all.
The biggest problem is the the US Government should have blocked the Boeing / Mc Donald Douglas merger. Then Boeing would have competition and have to actually work to be in business, not just know they had the US Military corporate welfare check in their pockets.
I think Boeing / MD should be broken up now under anyi trust laws.
While Boeing was scheming how far they could gouge the tax payers with the new Military tanker, they just forgot they have work to do on the 'VaporLiner'.
This is the perfect example of a good company caught up in greed instead of what they started as, building airplanes.
Actually I was thinking , this may explain Bill Gates sociopathic greed.
This could be better spent on more cell towers, or not allowing bastard fone companies to charge $200.00 termination fees.
Stopping secret messages? , puleeese.
"John has a long mustache"
"The chair is against the wall"
Stop that!
Well, like ISO and OOXML (M$XML)?
To bad the ISO folks aren't reading this Slashdot artical.
M$XML is designed to do exactly this.
M$XML is fitting, more fitting than OOXML which implies openness which is the exact opposite of what it really is, so add my name to your list. I also call it M$XML.
Space Shuttle Design? , who cares, the thing is junk, and prolly just designed to make the Russians spend billions of rubles to copy it. ( Buran, I think)
It was just a waste of our tax money by some fool in the Reagan administration, to simultaneously empty 'large quantities' of our tax money in to some favorite defense contractors pockets, and help the silly plan to break the economy of the USSR.
NASA should just send em to Wright-Pat and the Smithsonian, find the plans for the Saturn-V and get on with business.
Of course the truth was stretched by M$. I like the part where they favor their buddies at Intel and say Vista runs well on low end chips, just to help an investor report.
The larger problem is even if you have the next thing to a super computer, Vista is still Vista. Doing mysterious DRM checks while copying files at a rate that would embarrass a TRS-80 Model 1, and all of the other issues of driver incomparability.
Vista is still prone to viruses and Trojans in no small part because M$ still lets it run as root and not need physical password entry to install or run a program.
Before any of the M$ fanbois out here start modding this down, go download the latest Ubuntu, install it on your "Vista Capable Machine" , try using it for a while, then honestly look and see if it isn't superior for desktop use than Vista.
I think you will be surprised.
Or, for those that think you have to pay for software in order for it to work, go over to an Apple store and try OS X.
After doing either of those 2 things, then see if you can come up with some reason, other than monopolistic domination and pre-installation as a reason that anyone would want Vista.
I am glad to say that Vista really is the new Edsel.
One thing I would like to see is how "78M" was arived at. Was this the price the knock off equipment was to be sold for, or was it what Cisco would have sold identicle equipment for at list price.
The reason I am asking this is to find out what Cisco equipment is really worth.
I am assuming that this knock off equipment is identicle to Cisco, at a small fraction of the price, (aka what the equipment is really worth, minus the obscene markup Cisco puts on.)
maybe $"78M" that Cisco charges is really only worth a couple thousand bux.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Cheers
1: Fuck the RIAA
2: Fuck the MPAA
and while I am at it,
3: Fuck Microsoft.
There, I feel better now.
Of course UCLA = ACLU.
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I wish I had mod points for this one. The original poster here really defines the word "Sheeple".
It is simply amazing what people will put up with from the likes of Microsoft because they are to afraid to try something new.